Somebody should read it properly.
Each month we pick a book that everybody already has an opinion about, and then we read the whole thing.
That is most of it. These tend to be the books that arrive with a great deal of noise and leave without being opened, which means nearly everything said about them is said by people who got as far as the cover.
We would rather get as far as the end.
Every book, we are told, deserves an official book club. Some deserve an unofficial one.
Try it — no account
An invented book. The readers are made up. The idea is not.
The Certainty Principle · a thriller everyone bought
p.12The helicopter exploded, but Chase Vanguard did not flinch, because flinching was for people who had not, as he had, stared death in its stupid face on four continents.
“Breathed, breathing” is two pages away. Pace yourself.
p.96“You don't understand,” she breathed, breathing. “The algorithm isn't just watching us. It's *learning* us.” He nodded, slowly, the way a man nods when he has understood something slowly.
The algorithm is learning us. The reader is learning to skim.
2 more notes are waiting further in. No spoilers before you get there.
Where everybody got to
At your page, 50% of readers were still going. The rest had quietly stopped.
House rules
We finish the book, or we say exactly which page we stopped on.
We quote it word for word, and never tidy a sentence up to make it land better.
Whoever wrote it finished a book. That is more than most of us have managed.
The joke is on us. We volunteered for this.
One book a month. Read it if you can.
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